The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Welcome to the Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma where you’ll receive the mental models, daily routines, and productivity tactics that Robin Sharma has taught to the titans of industry, sports superstars, and elite performers who he has served as a private mentor to for over 31 years. You'll learn how to live a truly world-class life while you accelerate your productivity, grow your leadership, build your business, and scale your impact on the world.
The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma
Winning Makes Most People Sloppy
As you produce more success, think even more like a beginner. Winning makes most people sloppy.
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One of the great dangers of being successful is you stop doing the things that made you successful. I really believe that nothing fails like success. You see all these Wall Street financiers who get to the top and some of make a mistake that degrades their success. You have a Hollywood actor who gets an Oscar and you never hear from them again because they fell in love with their success when they got distracted and it became about the money versus the craft. or they did something in public because they were arrogant and they lost their reputation. It happens to great companies every day of the week. They get to the top and they forget who puts food on the family table. They lose intimacy with their customers. In India, I was once in a taxi, had a great conversation. And I asked the taxi driver, you know, why are you so incredibly positive? Why are you so professional? Why is your cab so perfect? He said, oh, in India, we see guests as God. Say no more, right? We see guests as God. And there are a lot of businesses who once they
get to be successful, they stop innovating, they stop going the extra mile, they are no longer merchants of wow. And I have seen and mentored so many people who got very, very successful. I'm not talking about world-class. I'm talking about absolute world-class, rare air. But once they got there, they stopped getting up early. They stopped trying to be better as an athlete. They stopped studying game tapes. They stopped working with multiple coaches. They started to get sloppy. And here's the fundamental trap. They thought the success they were currently
experiencing would always last. And I think you need to be a cheerful paranoid. A cheerful paranoid. Be optimistic. Be a positive person, of course. But you want to be paranoid. Andy Grove of Intel said, only the paranoid last. So I want you, and here's a word to write down, I want you to be hyper vigilant about getting sloppy. I want you to be so careful that as you become more successful, more fit, more mentally strong, more emotionally loving, more spiritually powerful, more financially free, you become even more humble.